The killer of 15-year-old Ng Yuk Tim was sentenced to death by the Shah Alam High Court yesterday.
Poon Wai Hong, 25, was handed the sentence after judge Datuk Mohd Azman Husin concluded that the defence failed to raise reasonable doubt to his charge of murdering the teenage cosplayer.
“The accused’s action of putting the body in a luggage bag and discarding it showed that he had the intention to murder her.
“The accused’s defence statements are not concurrent with the postmortem report,” Azman said.
It was revealed in court that the accused had intended to have sex with the victim but a friend had interrupted the duo causing him to go out, The Sun daily reported.
When he came back, the girl did not want to have sex anymore, causing the two to fight.
Poon had claimed that during the argument between 3pm and 4pm on Oct 21, 2013, Ng fell and hit her head on a dumbbell and died. However, his claims were not consistent with the postmortem report.
The teenager was believed to have gone to Poon’s house at Kampung Cempaka in Kelana Jaya the previous day for help with some cosplay costumes.
The accused, who initially claimed that he had dropped Ng off at the Kelana Jaya LRT, subsequently led police to Ng’s body which was stuffed in a suitcase near Kota Kemuning in Shah Alam.
Poon was convicted under Section 302 of the Penal Code which carries the mandatory death penalty.
During the course of the trial, the prosecution called 13 witnesses and the defence, just one.
Poon was represented by Datuk Rajpal Singh.